I first paved my work machine and installed Vista a little over a year ago. I thought it’d be fun for the one-year anniversary to fire up the Performance and Reliability Monitor and post a screenshot:

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As you can see (if you click on the image, at least) my reliability index is currently sitting on 8.78. I’d say that’s pretty good, particularly since I was back up to 9.14 as recently as the 10th of this month, only to drop with a few random “Application Failures” since then.

What’s your reliability index? You can find out (in Vista) by clicking the Start button and typing “reliability” to find the shortcut.